Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Despite many recent claims the Belgrave and Lilydale Lines are not level crossing free.
The last one left west of Ringwood is here in Box Hill.
#BoxHill #railway #levelcrossing
SOURCES
'Gone for good: Lilydale Line level crossing free'. Level Crossing Removal Project. 5 July 2024. https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/news/level-crossing-removal-project/gone-for-good-lilydale-line-level-crossing-free
RAILWAY CROSSING AT WILLIAM STREET, BOX HILL. (1914, October 10). Camberwell and Hawthorn Advertiser (Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 4. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article153615975
Pratt, Charles Daniel, 'Aerial view of Box Hill, Victoria'. ca.1950. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/386116
PROPOSED VEHICULAR SUBWAY. (1928, September 7). Box Hill Reporter (Vic. : 1925 - 1950), p. 3. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article257221337
Crossing Dangerous At William Street (1948, July 30). Box Hill Reporter (Vic. : 1925 - 1950), p. 3., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article282162720
Langford, Weston, '114751: Box Hill New Station Looking towards Melbourne'. 29 April 1983. westonlangford.com/images/photo/114751
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/282117902
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/282161210
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/282162720
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/257154345
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/282159551
Despite many recent claims the Belgrave and Lilydale Lines are not level crossing free.
The last one left west of Ringwood is here in Box Hill.
#BoxHill #railway #levelcrossing
SOURCES
'Gone for good: Lilydale Line level crossing free'. Level Crossing Removal Project. 5 July 2024. https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/news/level-crossing-removal-project/gone-for-good-lilydale-line-level-crossing-free
RAILWAY CROSSING AT WILLIAM STREET, BOX HILL. (1914, October 10). Camberwell and Hawthorn Advertiser (Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 4. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article153615975
Pratt, Charles Daniel, 'Aerial view of Box Hill, Victoria'. ca.1950. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/386116
PROPOSED VEHICULAR SUBWAY. (1928, September 7). Box Hill Reporter (Vic. : 1925 - 1950), p. 3. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article257221337
Crossing Dangerous At William Street (1948, July 30). Box Hill Reporter (Vic. : 1925 - 1950), p. 3., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article282162720
Langford, Weston, '114751: Box Hill New Station Looking towards Melbourne'. 29 April 1983. westonlangford.com/images/photo/114751
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/282117902
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/282161210
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/282162720
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/257154345
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/282159551
